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- 12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009
monetize the value they would create? Would investors see as much potential in BCM as its founders? And how would the company's cash constraints impact the strategy in the current economic environment?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
Michael A. Volkema
Volkema was devoted to turning the office furniture company into a profitable enterprise. Developing an extensive 12 person Executive Leadership team, Volkema redesigned HM’s core value system, launching the Blueprint for Corporate... View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
spending associated with the redemption of such a coupon is focused on "marginal" grocery items, or grocery items that a customer does not typically buy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-024.pdf The Causes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Riding the Internet Fast Track
professor Tom Eisenmann, who also serves on the board of OneMain.com, one of the nation's ten largest Internet service providers, and on the advisory boards of many Internet start-ups. Eisenmann's definition of the get-big-fast strategy... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49606 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Can Analysts Assess Fundamental Risk and Valuation Uncertainty? An Empirical Analysis of Scenario-Based Value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
which collects and parses shipping information from US Customs and Border Protection. "From there we simply tested: If you have a lot of one country's ethnic makeup around you,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 28
fashion company competing in a variety of unconventional ways, many "experience economy" related. Moods fronts their brand with the "boy band" images of its three founders and designs eccentric features into their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Pursuing A Passion in Health Care
and eventually drafting up the business case (where I get to apply my net present value and weighted average cost of capital skills from first-year finance classes!). I’ve... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
eligible electorate. To win the general, assuming a 60 percent voter turnout, he'll need around five times as many customers to close the deal. Conventional political wisdom argues that Trump has to soften his tone, drop the ad hominem... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
http://hbr.org/2014/01/can-a-strong-culture-be-too-strong/ar/1 January 2014 MIT Sloan Management Review Strategic Decisions for Multisided Platforms By: Hagiu, Andrei Abstract—Multisided platforms such as eBay and Facebook create View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2016
- News
Tipping His Cap to Open Source
deconstructs the traditional software value chain at big tech employers like Oracle and IBM. “What are the boundaries of an organization going forward in a world where... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
channel offers potential benefits in selling to customer segments that value the convenience of online shopping, but it also raises new challenges. These include the higher likelihood of costly product... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
themselves. The authors offer what they call the three imperatives for every manager who seeks to avoid this stagnation: Manage yourself. Who you are as a person, the beliefs and values that drive your... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
operations? 2) What might be the intellectual added value of such a perspective? 3) What are the basic elements of behavioral operations research? Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-096.pdf Film Rentals View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
solutions—and that doing so can open tremendous growth opportunities for their businesses and the country as a whole. Set in September 2015, this case provides a detailed look at Nigeria's poultry value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
value on average quality and less value on total quantity. With competing platforms, the effect of user preferences for quantity is reversed. Furthermore, exclusion incentives... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Passion & Purpose
employees in 28 offices. The company, with an industry-high 99 percent customer retention rate, regularly receives awards for its customer service. Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960 Cofounder View Details
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
vital to strategy implementation (for example, at exclusive hotel chains) or when the organizational design is highly complex because of sophisticated technologies and a complex value View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
with firm value and operating performance persisted. Read the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1589731 Does Management Really Work? Authors: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
particular challenge the company faced was about selling its line of prestigious, professional beauty tools to chain drugstores—risking dilution of the brand, losing existing core customers, and taking on... View Details